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In the wake of the success of ABC's soap drama SCANDAL, there seems to be a heightened awareness of interracial relationships, especially those involving black women and non-black men. Although these types of relationships may seem like "something new" (referencing a movie a few years ago), actually this pairing, as well as other racial pairings, are hardly new and have existed since men of various lands found means to sail to other hemispheres and encounter the "foreign" women living there. Even in the early years of America, before slavery became fully entrenched, black and white indentured servants paired off without thought of "race." Only later were...

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In the wake of the success of ABC's soap drama SCANDAL, there seems to be a heightened awareness of interracial relationships, especially those involving black women and non-black men. Although these types of relationships may seem like "something...

Tuesday, June 18
1 p.m. – Courthouse Lawn – Lindsey O'Brien
Lindsey O'Brien, singer-songwriter, unites rock, pop, and folk in her original music. Lindsey O'Brien's voice is described as sweet but not sugary and her songwriting reveals an edge of...

Genre mash-ups are de rigueur these days. Of course, writers like Margaret Atwood have been tight-roping the misty border between literary fiction and speculative fiction, fantasy and mystery for years. But a new outcropping of younger upstarts, such as...

Like modern fantasy authors from Lewis Carroll, George MacDonald and C. S. Lewis to Gene Wolfe and John Crowley, Neil Gaiman writes about the worlds on the edges of this one -- just off the map, a bit to the left, inaccessible without the right...

Moo & Oink is serving more than 2,000 hamburgers to children at UniverSoul Circus Camp for Chicagoland children from 3:30 to 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 17, at Washington Park, 5531 S. Martin Luther King Dr., Chicago. In addition, Moo and his...

In "The Shining Girls," the South African writer Lauren Beukes' chilling new novel set in Chicago, Harper Curtis is not your run-of-the-mill serial killer. In some respects, his modus operandi is strictly garden variety. He stalks his victims...

The Joliet Junior College Library, partnering with the Shorewood and New Lenox public library districts, invites the community to the “America’s Music: A Film History of Our Popular Music from Blues to Bluegrass to Broadway” program at JJC, thanks to a...

Normally I don't complain about the proliferation of movie remakes any more than I complain about movie sequels and communal tables in restaurants — what's the point?
But recently a remake delivered a shiver. Its arrival felt like a cold harbinger of a...

Since her first novel, "Durable Goods" (1993), Chicago author Elizabeth Berg has carved out a place as one of America's most beloved chroniclers of female friendship. Best known for the best-selling "Open House," an Oprah's Book Club...

Back in 2011, one night after PJ Morton watched his future Young Money record label boss and rap megastar Lil Wayne perform at the DTE Energy Music Theatre in Clarkston, Mich., the soul-pop singer returned to the venue to perform pop hits such as...

As proudly reported in Scottish Life magazine, a British think tank called the New Economics Foundation recently determined that the Scots are the happiest people in Britain, boasting some of the most impressive "wellbeing" scores anywhere....

We haven’t seen the last of Lisa Lampanelli on the Comedy Central Roasts, not according to the “Queen of Mean” herself.
Lampanelli, the 51-year-old insult comic who performs Saturday at the Rialto Square Theatre in Joliet, said she simply skipped the...

Earlier this month the pre-Halloween episode of “The Simpsons” opened with an elaborate three-minute segment directed by Guillermo del Toro, in which Bart joyfully skateboards up the tentacle of a gruesome, towering creature, its eight eyes seemingly...

From "Sweet Valley High" to "Twilight," teen romances have long been popular off-the-shelf selections for young adult readers. Now, Swoon Reads, a new website maintained by Macmillan Children's Publishing at SwoonReads.com, is allowing...

Over the past decade, Irish novelist Colum McCann has made a specialty of combining historical figures and situations with entirely fictional characters. In "Dancer (2003), McCann delivered an often stinging portrait of Rudolf Nureyev; in the...

The Chicago French Market (131 N. Clinton St., Chicago IL, 60661; 312-575-0306) is helping everyone kick off the summer season by offering a full schedule of events and specials throughout the month of June. Little Goat Bread will be opening Friday,...

When the members of the Chicago-area heavy metal band For All I Am needed a new guitarist and backup singer for their group, known for its death-growl vocals and head-banging guitar riffs, they turned to 19-year-old Jesse Marx — youngest son of Richard...

American crime fiction has a distinct genius for geography. In Richard Price's Dempsy, N.J., in "Samaritan" or "Raymond Chandler's Los Angeles," it is often the city as much as any single person that seems to bear responsibility for...